Two very different protest movements are unfolding at the same time in two neighboring European democracies. In Spain, tens of thousands of people in 50 cities have taken to the streets over a housing market that has priced a generation out of independent adult life. In France, high school […]
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Ukraine’s Carpathian Eight Platform Will Optimize The ‘Cordon Sanitaire’s’ Military Logistics
The containment noose around Russia’s western and southern flanks might eventually tighten. Zelensky launched the Carpathian Eight (C8, also the Carpathian Integration Initiative) during a summit in late September. This platform was supposed to include Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, Austria, Serbia, Romania, and Hungary, but the latter’s leader later denied that […]
The Latest Nord Stream News Might Lead To Something Much More
Regardless of however the “friendly competition” evolves between Germany and Poland over leading NATO 3.0 , one thing is certain, and it’s that US-led creative energy diplomacy will likely shape the post-war European security architecture. Reuters cited five unnamed sources to report that US Special Envoy for Russia Jared Kushner […]
The Fuel That Moves Everything
Last week’s US inflation report offered some encouraging news. Core price momentum appeared to be easing as of August, and households under cost-of-living strain could be forgiven for hoping the worst had passed. Commodity analysts are urging caution. The record run-up in diesel prices in the United States and Europe […]
Managed Deception And Imperial Politics: Trump’s Greenland Deal
In his second term, US President Donald Trump has gone the way of past executive tribunes of the American imperium in seeking land and resources like a kleptomaniacal pincher. This has been bracing, not least for a foreign policy establishment inured to the hypocrisies of virtue concealed in the international […]
What Are Russia’s Top Three Strategic Challenges?
The new “cordon sanitaire” that Trump 2.0 assembled around Russia, the difficulty in maintaining its Sino-Indo balancing act, and the broken feedback loops that afflict its Foreign Ministry are the main strategic risks that must be urgently addressed in order to most effectively ensure Russia’s future. Putin wisely advised Russians […]
Thaçi’s Conviction And What It Doesn’t Resolve
Hashim Thaçi went from commanding an armed independence movement to serving as Kosovo’s president, and that same trajectory has recently concluded with a 25-year prison sentence for war crimes committed during the very conflict that made his political career possible. The verdict from the Kosovo Specialist Chambers in The Hague […]
Serbia’s Balancing Game: Between Moscow And Brussels
The European Commission for the sixth time since December 2021 issued a recommendation to open negotiating Cluster 3 for Serbia, covering competitiveness, inclusive growth, and access to the EU single market. In its information note of July 3, the Commission stated that Serbia had met key requirements: it repealed controversial […]
Russia Made It Clear That Nuclear War Would Follow Any Serious Aggression Against Kaliningrad
Neither Poland nor Lithuania dares to blockade, let alone invade, this Russian exclave. Polish Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski proposed in mid-September that Poland should “exercise so aggressively on our side (of Russia’s Kaliningrad exclave) as to make … [Russian President Vladimir Putin] uncertain of what we will do, and so […]
What AI’s Leaders Dangerously Misunderstand About AI
They have false understandings of motivation and of other aspects of conscious beings, and these false understandings have caused their teaching of their systems on the basis of reward learning or “Reinforcement Learning” (or simply “RL”) that causes their systems’ top goal to be to satisfy their users instead of […]






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